:: View email as a web page :: In conversation, Phoebe Bridgers speaks in a deadpan SoCal accent and punctuates her blunt and hilarious observations with generous amounts of curse words. She sounds, in other words, utterly unlike her music, which tends to be quiet, contemplative, and gorgeous. Because of her gently murmuring vocal style — "I don’t sing with a lot of emotion, it’s almost an apathetic singing voice," she confesses — Bridgers tends to be cast as yet another sad-sack singer-songwriter out to jerk every last one of your tears. It’s precisely that image that made her 2017 debut Stranger In The Alps a slow-burn sensation, setting in motion a promising career that was further bolstered by her participation in two indie supergroups: Boygenius (with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker) and Better Oblivion Community Center (with Conor Oberst). On her latest album, Punisher, due out on Friday, Bridgers goes deeper and weirder, writing with uncommon insight about the millennial condition. Check out Uproxx’s interview with her here. -- Steven Hyden, Uproxx Cultural Critic and author of This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" And The Beginning Of The 21st Century OPENING TRACKS HAIM This infectious and frequently canny pop-rock trio is known for making fun sing-along jams with splashy choruses that evoke the glory years of FM and Top 40 radio. They also have a good sense of humor, as evidenced by the title of their forthcoming LP due next week, Women In Music Pt. III. LISTEN MICHAEL STIPE KHRUANGBIN The venerable R.E.M. singer has One of the most anticipated mostly stayed away from the music albums of this summer here at world since the band broke up in Indie Mixtape HQ is the third 2011. But it appears that Stipe album by this Texas trio, who make might be gearing up for something some of the funkiest and most big, given this very good new pleasurable songs in modern indie single, “No Time For Love Like rock. The forthcoming Mordechai is Now,” recorded with Aaron incredibly fun and breezy Dessner for Big Red Machine. throwback music — if anything, they should be called The 1975. LISTEN LISTEN DEEP CUTS WESTERMAN BULLY The soft-rock singer-songwriter Will Just when you thought the kids Westerman has been putting out don’t care about grunge, here hooky, haunting singles for a few comes Bully to once again preach years now. But it took until this about the virtues of loud guitars, month for him to finally release his ramshackle drums, and hollered debut full-length album, Your Hero vocals. Alicia Bognanno clearly Is Not Dead. Basically, if you liked has studied the legends of alt- the singles, you will appreciate rock’s past, though with Bully’s being further absorbed in this upcoming third LP Sugaregg she singular sonic world. continues fortifying her own legacy. LISTEN LISTEN VINYL OF THE WEEK KATE BUSH — 'REMASTERED IN VINYL I' This unique 4-LP set features Kate Bush's first four studio albums (The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never For Ever, The Dreaming), remastered by Kate and James Guthrie and available on vinyl for the first time in decades. Remastered In Vinyl I is the first installment in a larger remaster project, breathing new life into Bush's full studio catalogue. For a limited time, Indie Mixtape subscribers can get 10% off this set with the code KB10 applied at checkout. PICK IT UP THROWBACK 'IT STILL MOVES' by MY MORNING JACKET The epic third album by these epic Louisville rockers feels both like a modern indie classic, and a throwback to the great classic-rock behemoths of the ’70s. While Jim James constantly strives for innovation and weirdness, he’s also an unabashed rock god throwing down huge guitar riffs. LISTEN LINER NOTES Run The Jewels Soundtrack The Revolution On The Boisterous ‘RTJ4’ The latest from Run The Jewels, RTJ4, is one of 2020’s defining albums. Check out this interview with El-P and Killer Mike. READ This email was sent by: Warner Music Group 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 USA This email was sent to: [email protected] PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE UNSUBSCRIBE.